in reply to mod_perl, The Bane of Shared Webhosting

As far as I know, pair Networks (my web provider) doesn't support mod_perl .. and I check their list of installed Apache modules fairly regularly.

I wish I could run mod_perl too .. from what I've heard, it provides a speed improvement of between two and three orders of magnitude, at the risk (according to pair's technical support) of providing (as I understand it) shared memory between all mod_perl processes .. and that's apparently a security risk.

--t. alex
but my friends call me T.

Update: As drewbie has pointed out, mod_perl is of course offered by pair on their dedicated servers. I should have explained that my comments really only apply to shared web hosting. When you have a box to yourself, virtually anything is possible.

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Re: Re: mod_perl, The Bane of Shared Webhosting
by drewbie (Chaplain) on Sep 06, 2002 at 16:10 UTC
    mod_perl is not available on the shared hosting servers, but it is an available option on Quickserve. As outlined by merlyn above, mod_perl in it's current form is not suitable for shared hosting environments because of 1) extra memory usage & 2) trusting users not to mess around w/ other's modules/scripts cached in memory.